Africa Human Rights And The Covid 19 Pandemic Mitigation Dynamics And Their Implications For Human Rights Freedoms And Civ

Author : Munyaradzi Mawere,James Duri
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956553372

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Africa, Human Rights and the Covid-19 Pandemic. Mitigation Dynamics and their Implications for Human Rights, Freedoms and Civ by Munyaradzi Mawere,James Duri Pdf

This book makes a significant contribution by initiating debate on the state of human rights, freedoms and civil liberties in the context of emergencies such as pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It is without doubt that as the world was preoccupied with combating the Covid-19 pandemic, issues of rights, freedoms and liberties in the context of this struggle increasingly came under close scrutiny. The book is for students and practitioners across fields, but most especially in history, law, political science, development studies, philosophy, social anthropology and sociology.

Author : Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri,James Hlongwana,Munyaradzi Mawere
Publisher : Langaa RPCID
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 995655247X

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Africa, Human Rights and the Covid-19 Pandemic by Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri,James Hlongwana,Munyaradzi Mawere Pdf

This book makes a significant contribution by initiating debate on the state of human rights, freedoms and civil liberties in the context of emergencies such as pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It is without doubt that as the world was preoccupied with combating the Covid-19 pandemic, issues of rights, freedoms and liberties in the context of this struggle increasingly came under close scrutiny. In many African countries, there were concerns about Covid-19 containment measures being enforced brutally by state security operatives such as the army, the police and the intelligence officers. Considerable debate also arose on whether the infringements that took place in an effort to thwart the pandemic were justifiable on health and moral grounds. The book makes an important claim that the fight against Covid-19 was marred by the abuse of power by many ruling elites who weaponised and repurposed pandemic curtailment provisions to taper democratic space by solidifying autocracy through muzzling political opponents, gagging the press and instituting various socio-political control mechanisms beyond public health concerns. In addition, cases abound of Covid-19 containment protocols being instrumentalised to subvert electoral processes, scuttle popular protests and extinguish opposition political activity. Undoubtedly, this book illustrates that the global struggle against Covid-19 was also very much a war for the respect of basic freedoms, human rights and civil liberties, thereby highlighting the need to establish a sustainable interaction between pandemic dynamics and human rights. The book is for students and practitioners across fields, but most especially in history, law, political science, development studies, philosophy, social anthropology and sociology.

Author : Ebenezer Durojaye,Derek M. Powell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031064012

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Constitutional Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Ebenezer Durojaye,Derek M. Powell Pdf

This book explores the resilience of constitutional government in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, connecting and comparing perspectives from ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa to global trends. In emergency situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, a state has the right and duty under both international law and domestic constitutional law to take appropriate steps to protect the health and security of its population. Emergency regimes may allow for the suspension or limitation of normal constitutional government and even human rights. Those measures are not a license for authoritarian rule, but they must conform to legal standards of necessity, reasonableness, and proportionality that limit state action in ways appropriate to the maintenance of the rule of law in the context of a public health emergency. Bringing together established and emerging African scholars from ten countries, this book looks at the impact government emergency responses to the pandemic have on the functions of the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary, as well as the protection of human rights. It also considers whether and to what extent government emergency responses were consistent with international human rights law, in particular with the standards of legality, necessity, proportionality, and non-discrimination in the Siracusa Principles.

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974

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Global Trends 2040 by National Intelligence Council Pdf

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Author : Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua
Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Conformity of COVID-19 responses in Africa through the prism of international human rights law by Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua Pdf

The book, Conformity of COVID-19 responses in Africa through the prism of international human rights law, provides useful insights into the subject-matter of COVID-19 from African perspectives on international law, human rights and democracy through detailed analyses of data, instruments, documents and events connected with the pandemic. The cutting-edge analyses by the contributors help to provide useful information on the human rights preparedness of African states to deal with pandemics, the limitations or restrictions imposed on human rights by African governments and the violations of human rights that took place during the pandemic; and whether the continent has learnt any useful lessons based on past experiences.

Author : Masake Pilisano Harris,Richard Obinna Iroanya
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666924817

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African Perspectives on Global Pandemics and the Challenges of Peace and Security by Masake Pilisano Harris,Richard Obinna Iroanya Pdf

This book examines the legal and security threat posed by pandemics in Africa and beyond. The authors propose that to effectively counter pandemics, it is necessary for states to transcend beyond a realism approach and to adopt security policies that reflect the multidimensional nature of state authority and functions.

Author : Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz,Adetokunbo Johnson
Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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COVID-19 and women’s intersectionalities in Africa by Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz,Adetokunbo Johnson Pdf

COVID-19 has become one of the most severe issues dominating discussions on the agendas of states globally, and across the African continent, since its emergence in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic has regrettably brought into sharp focus the continued multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination faced by women and girls in Africa because of their intersecting identities. Yet, paradoxically, although African women are disproportionately affected by the crisis, they are largely invisible in the responses. Several African states and governments have taken different policy measures in response to the pandemic. These responses have taken different dimensions, including shutting down economies, imposition of lockdowns, coercive quarantine measures with police enforcement and criminal consequences for offenders violating these rules. Unfortunately, these responses have reinforced and amplified women’s disproportionate disadvantage and gender inequalities in Africa. Against this backdrop, this book asks the intersectional question about women’s experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. Applying an intersectional human rights lens involves questioning how the intersecting identities that African women embody affect their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author : Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031212833

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African Development and Global Engagements by Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran Pdf

The book takes a cursory look at the drivers and the directions of Africa’s developmental drive as a largely developing continent within the frameworks of the ever-dynamic global space, putting into perspective inherent challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century, and thereafter. Being the continent with most youthful population, Africa appears to still lack in requisite innovative interventions to transmute such demographic dividend into economic opportunities for the benefits of the larger population. Instead, there has been increasing trend in South-North migrations among both skilled and unskilled Africans across all age groups. Besides, impacts of climate change on the continent have also implied unstructured migratory trend within and beyond the bounds of the continent. Africa has continued to play a feeble role in various United Nations (UN)-enabled ‘Conference of Parties’ (COP) negotiations, such as the COP-26 in Glasgow, Scotland (2021). The management of recent Covid-19 epidemic across the world has presented a clear pointer to Africa that except development is internally-driven, no one is ready to exogenously drive sustainable good life for others. Ostensible ‘vaccine nationalism’ that has dotted the production and availability of various Covid-19 vaccine brands, which has ultimately left Africa as the ‘begging continent’ one more time calls for in-depth interrogation in contextualizing what the place of Africa has been, is and to be within the global interactive mode.

Author : Monika Florczak-Wątor,Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz,Jan Malíř,Max Steuer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781003851103

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States of Emergency and Human Rights Protection by Monika Florczak-Wątor,Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz,Jan Malíř,Max Steuer Pdf

Emergencies are ubiquitous in 21st-century societal discourses. From the rise of emergency pronouncements in the United States since 9/11 accompanied by the associated violations of fundamental rights, through talks of ‘crises’ in the EU in relation to the economy, Putin’s occupation of Crimea (as recently amplified by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine) or refugees, to the long-neglected looming climate catastrophe, emergency discourses have been catapulted to the centre of attention by the critical juncture of the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume presents and compares the existing regulations and practices of emergencies and human rights protection in the Visegrad (V4) countries. As such, the analysis covers Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Although these European countries share a common historical experience and are now members of the EU and NATO, they differ in some of their constitutional traditions and, also, in the dynamics of their political regimes. Divided into three parts, the first two comprehensively discuss the constitutional models of emergency and human rights protection in each of the V4 countries, while the third part illustrates how these models and the general framework of rights protection materialised in the limitations of the selected human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic. The volume provides a compass for more in-depth, comparative, and interdisciplinary inquiries into the forms and practices of emergencies in one of the EU regions that faces illiberalisation and the consequences of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation on its eastern borders. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and policymakers working in the areas of Constitutional Law and Politics.

Author : Ronagh J.A. McQuigg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781040003572

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The European Convention on Human Rights and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Ronagh J.A. McQuigg Pdf

This book provides detailed analysis of the applicability of the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights to issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic. It encompasses in-depth discussion of the emerging jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights relating to issues arising from the pandemic. To date, a substantial number of complaints concerning such issues have been made to the Court. Human rights claims in the context of the pandemic fall into two broad categories: those based on arguments that states did not put in place sufficient measures to protect individuals from the virus and those entailing arguments that the measures put in place themselves involved breaches of rights. The essential question with which the European Court of Human Rights must grapple is how to adjudicate on the correct balance which should have been struck. The book argues that the Court should be cautious of finding breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights in cases involving public restrictions which were applied for the purpose of protecting life and health in response to a global pandemic. If the concept of a human rights violation is defined too broadly, it dilutes the seriousness of such a breach. In particular, it is argued that to preserve the legitimacy of human rights law, the Court must be cautious of applying an overly narrow margin of appreciation in such cases. The work will be of interest to academics, researchers and policymakers working in the area of human rights.

Author : Desmond Oriakhogba
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783031332821

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The Right to Research in Africa by Desmond Oriakhogba Pdf

This book formulates a human right to research in Africa based on an in-depth examination of the available international and regional human rights instruments as well as those relevant to the national contexts of African countries. The imbalances in the African copyright ecosystem regarding access to information for research and education became painfully apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. African libraries and knowledge curators found themselves ill-equipped to perform their role of enabling access to information. As teaching, learning and research are increasingly done on digital platforms, learners and researchers continue to grapple with the challenges of accessing materials owing largely to the protection of these resources under copyright law. Access to information, which is needed in order to exercise the right to science and culture, faces a significant challenge posed by the exercising of exclusive rights by copyright owners without a legal mechanism that properly balances copyright from a human rights perspective. To achieve such a balance, there is an urgent need to revise the African copyright system from the perspective of human rights law. Can it be done by establishing a human right to research? In view of the existing broad freedom of expression, and the right to science and culture, education, and property in global, national and regional human rights regimes, is a specific right to research in Africa necessary and justifiable? If so, what should its minimum core components be? Are there international and national regimes already in place that could support the formulation of a human right to research in Africa? This book offers a valuable resource for law- and policymakers in the fields of copyright and human rights, judges, lawyers, public interest groups, researchers and students, librarians and authors, as well as the general public.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
ISBN : 9966040714

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Pain and Pandemic by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Addaney,Michael Gyan Nyarko,Elsabé Boshoff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030270490

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Governance, Human Rights, and Political Transformation in Africa by Michael Addaney,Michael Gyan Nyarko,Elsabé Boshoff Pdf

This edited volume examines the development and challenges of governance, democracy, and human rights in Africa. It analyzes the emerging challenges for strengthening good governance in the region and explores issues related to civil, political, economic, cultural, and social rights highlighting group rights including women, girls, and other minority groups. The project presents a useful study of the democratization processes and normative developments in Africa exploring challenges in the form of corruption, conflict, political violence, and their subsequent impact on populations. The contributors appraise the implementation gap between law and practice and the need for institutional reform to build strong and robust mechanisms at the domestic, regional, and international levels.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780788170263

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Current Human Rights Situation in Africa by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa Pdf

Contains the proceedings of the May 1996 hearing before The Subcommittee on Africa, House of Representatives, on the current human rights situation in Africa. Witnesses: John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Thomas Lansner, International Affairs Analyst, Heritage Foundation; Gregory Simpkins, Deputy Regional Program Director for Africa, International Republican Institute; and Joseph Eldridge, Director of the Washington, DC office -- Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.

Author : Shareen Hertel,Catherine Buerger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000841978

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Rights at Stake and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Shareen Hertel,Catherine Buerger Pdf

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life across the world, placing people at risk as our responses to it alter not only health and wellbeing but also governance, economies, social relations, and our interaction with the natural environment. This volume draws globally recognized human rights scholars and practitioners into dialogue over the costs and consequences of the pandemic. With insights and data from fields as diverse as medicine, anthropology, political science, social work, business, and law, these contributors help us make sense of the pandemic’s ongoing effects and its potential impact on future systems and processes. Drawn from two special issues of The Journal of Human Rights—one published within eight months of the first lockdowns, the other published almost two years into the pandemic—this book offers one of the most comprehensive collections of such research available. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Politics, Sociology, Social Work, Economics, Anthropology, Social and Political Geography, and Public Policy.